38You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.


In Context

35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the Lord will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off.

Deuteronomy 28:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather [but] little in; for the locust shall consume it.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall devour it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:38Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and shalt gather but little: for the locust shall consume it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

28:38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

28:38'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

28:38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.